I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis,… — Peter Weller Copy Share Image
I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization:… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
It's not enough to just be a good singer. You have to know where your roots come from. If you sing jazz,… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I… — Tony Iommi Copy Share Image
There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last,… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish… — Etta James Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant.… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of turning jazz into homework assignments. I would never have a quiz saying, "Who's the clarinetist on the… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas...… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through… — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
My aunt Ruth Brown was a jazz musician. I got hooked on it at a young age, understanding what John Coltrane was… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is… — Charlie Hunter Copy Share Image
A dancer is a dancer. If I can do jazz, then I can also do modern jazz, break and Hindi dance also.… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues,… — Etta James Copy Share Image
When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things… — Lauren Daigle Copy Share Image
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected -… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as… — Jamie Muir Copy Share Image
![“[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the things he told me he loved about my voice was how I used space-both in music and between my voice and the mike.” quote by Helen Merrill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d14/helen-merrill-83326_brilliant_miles-davis-learned-from-everyone-he-was_3158989.jpg)
